On Tue, 26 May 1998, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> In a side note, if you don't already have it set, doing "asyncmap 0" should
> speed up your PPP connection (assuming your link can handle those characters).
> I'm not sure by how much, though.

On average, it would cut down the number of characters actually
transmitted by 32/(256+32)=1/9 for binary transfers, nothing at all for
text files (which have no control characters). Therefore, it could
increase your throughput by up to 11%.